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Heba Alshibani did not set out to become a journalist. She had expected to become an academic, as many members of her Libyan family had before the February 2011 uprising that led to the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi. But when the violence did not abate after Qaddafi's overthrow, Alshibani witnessed events that she felt compelled to record and share. She had no training as a journalist, but had a penchant for exposing "wrong-doings," as she puts it, and felt an almost instinctive need to bring them to light.

Bangkok, January 12, 2016 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Indonesia's refusal to issue a media visa to French journalist Cyril Payen. The Bangkok-based senior reporter for France 24 television received notice of the denial from Indonesia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs without explanation on Friday, he told CPJ.

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Nairobi, August 3, 2015--Burundi security forces detained and beat a journalist on Sunday while he was covering the assassination of a top general in the capital, Bujumbura, according to news reports and the journalist. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the attack and calls on Burundian authorities to launch a full and efficient investigation.

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New York, October
24, 2012--CPJ is alarmed by a Bahraini court's acquittal of a police officer
accused of torturing a journalist in custody in 2011.

A criminal
court in Manama on Monday acquitted police officer Sara al-Moussa on charges of
torturing Nazeeha Saeed, a reporter for France24 and Radio Monte Carlo Doualiya,
while the journalist was in custody in May 2011, according to the official Bahrain
News Agency
(BNA). The agency reported that the court ruled that Saeed's testimony was full
of "contradictions" and not "consistent." Saeed told CPJ that she and her
lawyer are urging prosecutors to reopen the case.

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Syria and Libya were
the main themes at the 19th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Prize for
War Correspondents, which took place this weekend in the historical city of
Bayeux, a few miles away from the Normandy beaches where Allied forces landed
in June 1944 to liberate Europe from the Nazi yoke.

The last few weeks have offered the strongest indications
yet that nation-states are using customized software to exploit security flaws
on personal computers and consumer Internet services to spy on their users. The
countries suspected include the United States, Israel, and China. Journalists
should pay attention--not only because this is a growing story, but because if
anyone is a vulnerable target, it's reporters.

New York, April 30, 2012--A French journalist who
was injured during combat between Colombian Army troops and guerrillas has gone
missing and may have been kidnapped by the rebels, according to Colombian and
French officials.

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New York, April
23, 2012--Bahraini
authorities, intent on suppressing coverage of the restive political conditions
that were a backdrop to the Formula One Grand Prix in Manama on Sunday,
arrested at least seven international journalists who were seeking to report on
anti-government demonstrations, according to news reports.